Kieran Hodgson
Kieran Hodgson
Kieran Hodgson is a British character comedian, actor, and writer. He was brought up in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire and educated at Greenhead College. He studied History and French at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class degree.His first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was French Exchange which was nominated by The Times was one of the "Top five of the Free Fringe 2014". It retold the story of a GCSE French exchange trip in a comedy storytelling style. That year, he also appeared as an aspiring detective called Ridley in an episode of Jonathan Creek, entitled "The Letters of Septimus Noone". In 2015, his show Lance, a similarly biographical storytelling piece about his childhood hero, Lance Armstrong, was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. He received the nomination again in 2016 for his show Maestro, which used his interest in classical music and attempt to write a symphony as a metaphor for his life. In 2018, Hodgson launched a new show, 75, at the Fringe. It used the 1975 referendum on Europe as a means of exploring the contemporary Brexit debate, with Hodgson impersonating many famous UK politicians from the 1970s. He was nominated for the Comedy Award for a third time, before taking the show on the road from January 2019. This formed the basis for his Channel 4 comedy documentary How Europe Stole My Mum. He appeared as Ian Lavender in the one-off BBC Two drama We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story. Hodgson also starred in The Lentil Sorters on BBC Radio 4, presented Kieran Hodgson's Earworms for Radio 4 in August 2017 and made appearances in Siblings on BBC Three, Count Arthur Strong on BBC Two and the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.In 2017 Hodgson first appeared as Gordon, the new boyfriend of Ian, in the BBC Scotland television comedy series Two Doors Down, a role that he reprised in the 2019 series.In 2022 he appeared as Prince Andrew in the Channel 4 programme Prince Andrew: The Musical. Outside of his comedy career Hodgson is a keen musician. He is a fan of romantic music, in particular the music of Gustav Mahler, and this was the topic of his stand-up show Maestro. Hodgson learned both the violin and piano as a child, and continues to play the violin now. He played in the North London Sinfonia for eight years, from 2012 to 2020.